Meaning

1 senses
  1. (Canada, US, capitalized, sometimes)A person born in the postwar years, generally considered in the United States and other Allied countries as between 1946 and 1964.

    Babyboomer, Babyboomerin

    бэ́би-бу́мерbɛ́bi-búmer

More definitions
  • a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Baby boomers are starting to retire.

    ruБебибумеры начинают выходить на пенсию. — marafon

  2. Tom is a baby boomer.

  3. America’s retailers are taking notice now that millennials have overtaken aging baby boomers as the country’s largest living generation of adults.

  4. Tom is a Baby Boomer.

  5. Baby Boomers were blamed for the society they failed to adequately change, a preview of what's coming for Millennials and Gen Z.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
person born after Second World War:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person born after Second World War:

Origin

From baby + boomer, or from baby boom + -er, when there was a marked increase in birthrate

From baby + boomer, or from baby boom + -er, when there was a marked increase in birthrates throughout the Western world following the return of servicemen at the end of World War II.

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Forms

plural: baby boomers

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s:boomer

Word family

4 related words

See also

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